Sphere Recording Mode: Overview; Sphere Recording Mode Controls - 4ms Company Spherical Wavetable Navigator User Manual

Sphere Recording Mode: Overview

Enter Sphere Recording Mode:
Push all three knobs
+ +

Sphere Recording Mode Controls

Some of the knobs, buttons, jacks, and lights are disabled or change function in Sphere Recording Mode:
Record
Monitor Input
Tune to Test Tone
+
Fine
Sphere Recording Mode lets you create new Spheres by recording audio from
any modular or line-level signal. You can also edit and apply effects to new or
existing Spheres. Only one Sphere can be edited or created at a time.
Entering Sphere Recording Mode
To Enter Sphere Recording Mode, press the Depth, Latitude, and Longitude
knobs at the same time. The three navigation knobs will turn orange. The
Sphere that you've selected for channel 1 load onto all six channels. Any
Dispersion in play will clear. LFO->VCA will turn off on every channel. The
current navigation position of all channels will snap to the nearest waveform.
You can immediately begin editing the Sphere by applying effects, or you can
start by recording a new Sphere. See Tutorial 5: Creating Your Own Spherical
Wavetables (page 9) for a step-by-step guide to recording a Sphere.
Record Button
The LFO->VCA button becomes the Record button and will flash red. When you
push this button, the SWN will wait until it detects a signal on the Waveform In jack
before starting to record. When it's waiting for a signal the button will flashing
rapidly and the light next to the Waveform In jack will flash red. As it records, the
light ring will fill up with red lights. After 2.5 seconds have passed, the recording
process will stop automatically; the recorded audio will split up into 27 waveforms
and all the channels will play the first waveform.
Monitor Button
The LFO Type button becomes the Monitor button and flashes green. When you
press this button, the audio from the Waveform In jack will be routed to the Audio
OUT jacks. This allows you to monitor or cue your audio input before recording.
The button will glow solid green while monitoring.
Tune to Test Tone
Pressing Fine + LFO Type will turn on monitoring while simultaneously outputting a
86.1Hz reference tone. If your audio source is a VCO (or something else that
produces waveforms with a definite fundamental frequency), then tuning the
fundamental frequency of the audio source to the reference tone will ensure that
the recorded waveforms are complete waveforms. Using this feature is optional
(and many interesting waveforms and effects can be obtained without tuning).
Browse and Navigation Knobs
The Browse, Latitude, Longitude, or Depth knobs will jump between exact
waveforms, rather than morphing. By holding down Fine while turning any of these
knobs, one can temporarily morph between waveforms.
Pushing and turning the Browse knob no longer selects the Sphere, but instead
changes the Waveform Shift amount (see next section). The CV jack for Sphere
selection is disabled.
The CV jacks for Browse, Depth, Latitude, Dispersion, and Dispersion Pattern
will snap to exact waveforms but otherwise behave as normal.
Dispersion, Dispersion Pattern, and WT Spread Knobs
Dispersion and Dispersion Pattern can be used as normal, but the dispersion
amount will be cleared as soon as the Browse, Latitude, Longitude, or Depth
knobs is turned. Dispersion will snap to exact waveforms unless Fine is held
down. The WT Spread knob and CV jack are disabled.
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